Zimzelen Glacier is the 3.7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula

Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula

Pefaur Peninsula is the heavily glaciated peninsula projecting 11 km in northwest direction from Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Hughes Bay to the northeast and Charlotte Bay to the south, and separated from Brabant Island to the northwest by Gerlache Strait.The...

, Danco Coast

Danco Coast

Danco Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition....

 on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

, situated east of Krapets Glacier

Krapets Glacier

Krapets Glacier is the 3.5 km long and 1.4 km wide glacier on Pefaur Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of Agalina Glacier and west of Zimzelen Glacier...

 and west of Blériot Glacier

Bleriot Glacier

Blériot Glacier is a short, but wide, glacier lying east of Salvesen Cove and Zimzelen Glacier and southwest of Cayley Glacier on Danco Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica...

  It drains northwards, and flowing into the east arm of Salvesen Cove

Salvesen Cove

Salvesen Cove is a cove forming the south extremity of Hughes Bay, along the west coast of Graham Land. The cove was partially outlined on the charts of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. Probably named by whalers operating in this vicinity after Salvesen and Company,...

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The glacier is named after the settlement of Zimzelen in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Zimzelen Glacier is centred at 64°27′00"S 61°17′40"W. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.